Improvement in compound tools



1. DILLN.

Compound-Tools.

Patented Dec. 30,1873,

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ATTUBNEXS- UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

JOHN DILLON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN coMPouND TooLs.

Specification forming part of-Letters Patent No. 145,992, dated December 30, 1873; application filed n December 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, J onN DILLoN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Compound Tool, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved tool, partly in section, to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a detail side view of the hammer part of the tool, part being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 3 is a side view of the upper part of the tool, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the tool arranged as a crank.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved compound tool, designed especially for use with my improved fire-extinguisher, but equally applicable for various other uses. The invention consists of the improved compound toolformed ofthehammer-headprovided with claws and a socket7 the handle provided with a square socket, the handle provided with jaws, the gimlet, the bradawl, and screwdisk, and the set-screw, constructed and operating in connection with each other, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents the hammer-head, which is made in the shape of an ordinary hammerhead, and which is provided with claws B for drawing tacks in the ordinary manner. The head A is provided with a short handle, C, which is made hollow and with a square socket, D, in the outer end to adapt it to be used as a wrench for turning bolts, nuts, &c. Upon the outer surface of the end of the handle C is formeda screw-thread to screw into the screwthread cut in the inner surface of the end of the hollow handle E. F is a small gimlet; and G is a brad-awl, the shanks of which are securely attached to the opposite sides of the button or disk H, which has a screw-thread turning when the tool is turned backward.

rlhe outer end of the handle E is notched, and the inner surface of one or both the jaws J thus formed is serrated to adapt them to serve as a wrench for turning pipes or other articles. One of the jaws J is sharpened to serve as a ne screw-driver, and the other is sharpened to serve as a coarse screw-driver. In the hammer-head A, near the claws B, is formed a socket, K, into which iits the brad-awl G, where it is secured in place by theset-screw I, as shown in Fig. 4. v

As thus arranged, the tool becomes a crank for turning a shaft or other object.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A11 improved compound tool formed of the hammer-head A, provided with the claws B and the socket K, the handle C. provided with a square socket, D, the handle E, provided with the `jaws J, the gimlet F, brad-awl G, and disk H, and the setscrew I, constructed and operating in connection with each other, substantially as herein shown and described.

J NO. DILLON.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER. 

